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1 2 NEWS 3 ==== 4 5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL 6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. 7 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2p and OpenSSL 1.0.2q [20 Nov 2018] 9 10 o Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication (CVE-2018-5407) 11 o Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0734) 12 13 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2o and OpenSSL 1.0.2p [14 Aug 2018] 14 15 o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732) 16 o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737) 17 18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2n and OpenSSL 1.0.2o [27 Mar 2018] 19 20 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the 21 stack (CVE-2018-0739) 22 23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2m and OpenSSL 1.0.2n [7 Dec 2017] 24 25 o Read/write after SSL object in error state (CVE-2017-3737) 26 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738) 27 28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2l and OpenSSL 1.0.2m [2 Nov 2017] 29 30 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736) 31 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735) 32 33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2k and OpenSSL 1.0.2l [25 May 2017] 34 35 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw 36 37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2j and OpenSSL 1.0.2k [26 Jan 2017] 38 39 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731) 40 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732) 41 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055) 42 43 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2i and OpenSSL 1.0.2j [26 Sep 2016] 44 45 o Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) 46 47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.0.2i [22 Sep 2016] 48 49 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) 50 o SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183) 51 o OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) 52 o Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) 53 o OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) 54 o OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) 55 o Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) 56 o Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) 57 o DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) 58 o DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) 59 o Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) 60 61 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016] 62 63 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107) 64 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105) 65 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106) 66 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109) 67 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176) 68 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername 69 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN. 70 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from 71 the default. 72 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option. 73 74 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016] 75 76 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL. 77 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers 78 (CVE-2016-0800) 79 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705) 80 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak 81 (CVE-2016-0798) 82 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption 83 (CVE-2016-0797) 84 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799) 85 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702) 86 87 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016] 88 89 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701) 90 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197) 91 92 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015] 93 94 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193) 95 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194) 96 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195) 97 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs 98 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short, 99 return an error 100 101 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015] 102 103 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) 104 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196) 105 106 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015] 107 108 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility 109 110 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015] 111 112 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) 113 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) 114 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) 115 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) 116 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) 117 118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015] 119 120 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291) 121 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290) 122 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207) 123 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286) 124 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208) 125 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287) 126 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289) 127 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293) 128 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787) 129 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285) 130 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209) 131 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288) 132 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers 133 134 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]: 135 136 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 137 o Support for DTLS 1.2 138 o TLS automatic EC curve selection. 139 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves 140 o SSL_CONF configuration API. 141 o TLS Brainpool support. 142 o ALPN support. 143 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH. 144 145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015] 146 147 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms 148 149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] 150 151 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 152 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 153 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 154 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 155 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 156 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 157 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 158 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 159 160 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 161 162 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 163 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 164 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 165 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 166 167 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 168 169 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 170 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 171 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 172 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 173 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 174 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 175 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 176 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 177 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 178 179 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 180 181 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 182 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 183 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 184 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 185 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 186 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 187 188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 189 190 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 191 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 192 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 193 194 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 195 196 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 197 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 198 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 199 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 200 201 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 202 203 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 204 205 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 206 207 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 208 o Include the fips configuration module. 209 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 210 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 211 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 212 213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 214 215 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 216 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 217 218 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 219 220 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 221 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 222 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 223 224 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 225 226 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 227 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 228 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 229 230 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 231 232 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 233 o SCTP support. 234 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 235 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 236 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 237 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 238 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 239 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 240 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 241 o SRP support. 242 243 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 244 245 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 246 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 247 o Various DTLS fixes. 248 249 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 250 251 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 252 253 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 254 255 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 256 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 257 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 258 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 259 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 260 261 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 262 263 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 264 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 265 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 266 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 267 o Various DTLS fixes. 268 269 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 270 271 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 272 273 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 274 275 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 276 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 277 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 278 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 279 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 280 281 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 282 283 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 284 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 285 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 286 287 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 288 289 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 290 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 291 292 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 293 294 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 295 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 296 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 297 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 298 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 299 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 300 o ASN1 printing support. 301 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 302 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 303 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 304 o New generalised public key API utilities. 305 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 306 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 307 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 308 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 309 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 310 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 311 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 312 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 313 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 314 315 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 316 317 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 318 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 319 320 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 321 322 o Cipher definition fixes. 323 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 324 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 325 o SPKAC handling fixes. 326 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 327 o Compression memory leak fixed. 328 o Compression session resumption fixed. 329 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 330 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 331 332 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 333 334 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 335 336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 337 338 o Fix various build issues. 339 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 340 341 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 342 343 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 344 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 345 346 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 347 348 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 349 o Various precautionary measures. 350 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 351 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 352 353 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 354 355 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 356 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 357 358 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 359 360 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 361 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 362 for VC++ build. 363 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 364 selected at compile time. 365 o DTLS improvements. 366 o RFC4507bis support. 367 o TLS Extensions support. 368 369 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 370 371 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 372 o RFC3779 support. 373 374 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 375 376 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 377 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 378 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 379 380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 381 382 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 383 o New cipher Camellia 384 385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 386 387 o Cipher string fixes. 388 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 389 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 390 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 391 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 392 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 393 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 394 395 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 396 397 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 398 o Extended Windows CE support 399 400 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 401 402 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 403 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 404 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 405 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 406 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 407 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 408 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 409 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 410 configuration file. 411 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 412 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 413 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 414 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 415 Makefile.shared. 416 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 417 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 418 automatically from specifically given directories. 419 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 420 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 421 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 422 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 423 function and an argument. 424 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 425 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 426 Nehemiah processors. 427 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 428 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 429 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 430 constraints and name constraints. 431 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 432 configuration file. 433 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 434 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 435 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 436 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 437 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 438 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 439 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 440 o New BUF functions. 441 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 442 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 443 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 444 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 445 OpenSSL. 446 o New control functions for the error stack. 447 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 448 processing. 449 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 450 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 451 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 452 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 453 affected functions. 454 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 455 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 456 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 457 of X.509 path validation. 458 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 459 AMD64. 460 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 461 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 462 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 463 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 464 SHA-1. 465 o Added support for DTLS. 466 o New BIGNUM blinding. 467 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 468 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 469 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 470 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 471 o Added initial support for Win64. 472 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 473 474 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 475 476 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 477 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 478 479 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 480 481 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 482 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 483 484 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 485 486 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 487 488 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 489 490 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 491 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 492 493 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 494 495 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 496 497 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 498 499 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 500 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 501 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 502 503 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 504 505 o More compilation issues fixed. 506 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 507 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 508 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 509 o More constification. 510 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 511 512 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 513 514 o Several compilation issues fixed. 515 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 516 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 517 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 518 o Performance improvements. 519 520 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 521 522 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 523 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 524 525 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 526 527 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 528 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 529 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 530 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 531 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 532 533 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 534 535 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 536 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 537 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 538 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 539 540 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 541 542 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 543 Bleichbacher's attack 544 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 545 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 546 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 547 o Build: shared library support fixes. 548 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 549 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 550 551 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 552 553 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 554 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 555 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 556 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 557 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 558 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 559 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 560 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 561 562 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 563 564 o New library section OCSP. 565 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 566 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 567 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 568 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 569 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 570 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 571 a separate distribution. 572 o New elliptic curve library section. 573 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 574 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 575 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 576 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 577 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 578 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 579 o Support for pkg-config. 580 o Lots of new manuals. 581 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 582 functions. 583 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 584 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 585 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 586 future). 587 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 588 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 589 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 590 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 591 and help optimizers. 592 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 593 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 594 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 595 Processing, IBM 4758. 596 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 597 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 598 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 599 EGD style random sources at several locations. 600 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 601 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 602 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 603 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 604 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 605 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 606 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 607 608 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 609 610 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 611 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 612 613 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 614 615 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 616 Bleichbacher's attack 617 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 618 o Build: shared library support fixes. 619 620 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 621 622 o Important security related bugfixes. 623 624 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 625 626 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 627 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 628 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 629 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 630 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 631 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 632 o Fixes for length problems. 633 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 634 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 635 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 636 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 637 638 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 639 640 o Important building fixes on Unix. 641 642 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 643 644 o Various important bugfixes. 645 646 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 647 648 o Important security related bugfixes. 649 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 650 651 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 652 653 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 654 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 655 656 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 657 658 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 659 o BIGNUM library fixes. 660 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 661 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 662 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 663 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 664 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 665 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 666 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 667 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 668 669 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 670 671 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 672 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 673 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 674 attack. 675 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 676 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 677 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 678 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 679 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 680 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 681 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 682 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 683 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 684 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 685 686 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 687 688 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 689 environment variables when running as root. 690 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 691 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 692 calculated signature. 693 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 694 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 695 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 696 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 697 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 698 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 699 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 700 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 701 memory checking routines. 702 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 703 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 704 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 705 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 706 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 707 o More documentation. 708 o New function BN_rand_range(). 709 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 710 711 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 712 713 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 714 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 715 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 716 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 717 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 718 o MD4 now included. 719 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 720 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 721 o Enhanced EVP interface. 722 723 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 724 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 725 726 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 727 728 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 729 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 730 o Support of Linux/IA64 731 o Assembler support for Mingw32 732 o New 'rand' application 733 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 734 735 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 736 737 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 738 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 739 o Automation of 'req' application 740 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 741 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 742 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 743 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 744 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 745 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 746 o Usable certificate chain verification 747 o Certificate purpose checking 748 o Certificate trust settings 749 o Support of authority information access extension 750 o Extensions in certificate requests 751 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 752 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 753 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 754 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 755 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 756 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 757 data 758 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 759 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 760 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 761 RSA functionality 762 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 763 via a per-thread stack 764 o PRNG robustness improved 765 o EGD support 766 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 767 o Faster DSA parameter generation 768 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 769 o Experimental MacOS support 770 771 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 772 773 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 774 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 775 form 776 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 777 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 778 o Avoid various memory leaks 779 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 780 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 781 782 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 783 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 784 o RSA OEAP related fixes 785 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 786 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 787 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 788 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 789 extension support 790 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 791 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 792 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 793 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 794 o Option to disable selected ciphers 795 796 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 797 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 798 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 799 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 800 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 801 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 802 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 803 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 804 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 805 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 806 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 807 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 808 o Overhauled Win32 builds 809 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 810 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 811 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 812 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 813 o Overhauled Perl interface 814 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 815 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 816 o Lots of bug fixes. 817 818 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 819 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 820 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 821 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 822 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 823 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 824 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 825 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 826 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 827 o Support for various new platforms 828 829